Impact of Attentional Focus on Basketball Shooting Performance

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A study on 56 experienced basketball players divided into self-controlled and yoked groups to explore the effects of internal, external, and holistic attentional conditions on shooting performance, with varying ball color choices. Participants focusing on their movement quality and choosing the ball color performed better in the self-control condition, with external and holistic attention groups showing improved performance.

A look at a recent study that addresses a question I get quite often: do the basic principles of motor learning, in this case, those proposed by OPTIMAL theory, still hold when we are dealing with highly skilled athletes? Articles:Effects of self-controlled practice and focus of attention on free throw accuracy: Exploring optimal theory among skilled basketball players More information:

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